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| The F-15's fan blades spin! Did everyone but me know about this? I just found out today, when I was blowing on my red JASDF one to dust it off--I heard a spinning noise, and eventually tracked it down to the fact that if you blow air down the intakes, the compressor fans spin! | |||||||||||||
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| Re: The F-15's fan blades spin! Well now i'm going to have to check out my F-15....Thats cool if they do.. I bet Elmer will like that. JP | |||||||||||||
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02-11-2008, 03:50 AM | # 3 Quick Link (permalink) | ||||||||||||||
| Re: The F-15's fan blades spin!
I am fascinated with it... I sit for hours blowin' on them and watchin' / listenin' to 'em spin! | ||||||||||||||
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|  Re: The F-15's fan blades spin! I checked my JASDF F-15 and lo and behold it spun! This detail re-enforced my like for some of the Witty jets. A nice detail not found on more popular and expensive brands! | |||||||||||||
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02-11-2008, 05:39 AM | # 5 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: The F-15's fan blades spin! I've just got this mental image of you guys sitting around wide-eyed, blowing furiously into your intakes....just try not to hyperventilate, fellas - you could pass out and drop your jets on the floor...then you'd have all kinds of free-moving parts. | |||||||||||||
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02-11-2008, 05:18 PM | # 6 Quick Link (permalink) | ||||||||||||||
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02-11-2008, 08:54 PM | # 7 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: The F-15's fan blades spin! Now if instead of investing in that gimmick, they (Witty) could have gotten the shape of the aircraft (canopy area) right, then I'd be really impressed. FVD | |||||||||||||
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02-11-2008, 09:35 PM | # 8 Quick Link (permalink) | ||||||||||||||
| Re: The F-15's fan blades spin!
actually, its probably more economical from their point of view if they had to choose. They'd save on glue! Props I can understand blwoing and watching them spin. But compressor blades in an intake that no one else sees......where does the uselessness stop?? | ||||||||||||||
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02-11-2008, 09:50 PM | # 9 Quick Link (permalink) | ||||||||||||||
| Re: The F-15's fan blades spin!
Oh, I make sure that everyone that sees my models, sees the compressor blades! | ||||||||||||||
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02-12-2008, 05:14 AM | # 10 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: The F-15's fan blades spin! They painted the inside of the engine nozzles white! Why'd they do that? | |||||||||||||
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